When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETApart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I can only draw what I see.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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